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Image of a person walking alongside a rocky bank by a body of water that has a boat with a ship with shipping containers on it.

New Artist Focus: Genevieve Yue on Callum Hill

Listen to the audio version of this essay on Soundcloud. (Listening time: 9 minutes 44 seconds) LUX Moving Image · New Artist Focus: Genevieve Yue

A person wearing a golden ring on their left pointer finger holding yellow flowers with an image of sticks and twine on the ground in the background.

New Artist Focus: Laura Guy on Jamie Crewe

Listen to the audio version of this essay on Soundcloud. (Listening time: 10 minutes 43 seconds) LUX Moving Image · New Artist Focus: Laura Guy

New Artist Focus: Jade Foster on Alberta Whittle

Listen to the audio version of this essay on Soundcloud.(Listening time: 19 minutes 7 seconds) LUX Moving Image · New Artist Focus: Jade Foster on

New Artist Focus: Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo on Michelle Williams Gamaker

Listen to the audio version of this essay on Soundcloud. (Listening time: 20 minutes 21 seconds) LUX Moving Image · New Artist Focus: Michelle WIlliams

A pink and blue tinted image. The texture can be described as a stormy ocean with geometric shapes.

New Artist Focus: KJ Abudu on Gelare Khoshgozaran

Listen to the audio version of this essay on Soundcloud. (Listening time: 11 minutes 21 seconds) LUX Moving Image · New Artist Focus: KJ Abudu

New Artist Focus: Inga Lāce on Sophio Medoidze

Listen to the audio version of this essay on Soundcloud. (Listening time: 12 minutes 23 seconds) LUX Moving Image · New Artist Focus: Inga Lāce

A large camel with a light golden coat is standing beside a small brown calf. Both animals appear to be looking directly into the camera. They are outside, in front of an unpainted, rough-looking brick wall.

New Artist Focus: Corina Copp on Deborah Stratman

Listen to the audio version of this essay on Soundcloud. (Listening time: 14 minutes 32 seconds) LUX Moving Image · New Artist Focus: Corina Copp

On a wooden shelving unit, a diverse collection of items is showcased, comprising family photographs, postcards, and various objects such as a small gold trophy. The image undergoes digital manipulation, where sections have been selectively blacked out with a painterly effect.

New Artist Focus: Minh Nguyen on Suneil Sanzgiri

Listen to the audio version of this essay on Soundcloud. (Listening time: 11 minutes) LUX Moving Image · New Artist Focus: Minh Nguyen on Suneil

Image of a white tiled bathroom floor with a green bath mat. Bare legs and feet can be seen on the centre of the image. A silver model plane is in the centre of the frame, out of focus.

New Artist Focus: Jemma Desai on Imran Perretta

Listen to the audio version of this essay on Soundcloud. (Listening time: 9 minutes) LUX Moving Image · The Questioned Body A Body Of Questions

Five people in matching dark uniforms stand apart from each other on a moss-covered ground, surrounded by muddy puddles. Each person faces a different direction

New Artist Focus: Mami Kataoka on Mikhail Karikis

[O]ur feeling for reality depends utterly upon appearance and therefore upon the existence of a public realm.[1] — Hannah Arendt Mikhail Karikis sculpts human voices

The image shows a serene ocean under a grey sky filling the frame. The horizon line divides the image into two halves, with a white caption that reads 'touch of the silence' followed by Farsi words. The words 'touch of' are partially scratched off.

New Artist Focus: Elhum Shakerifar on Maryam Tafakory

Listen to the audio version of this essay on Soundcloud. (Listening time: 12 minutes) LUX Moving Image · New Artist Focus: Elhum Shakerifar On Maryam

A photograph of a white tiger’s head on a black paper is held by a pair of hands. A vertical strip of the tiger image is cut out to reveal a nose and mouth of a green tinted face

New Artist Focus: Seán Elder on Anne-Marie Copestake

Listen to the audio version of this essay on Soundcloud. (Listening time: 12 minutes) LUX Moving Image · New Artist Focus: Sean Elder On Anne

The frame fills with the pitch dark head of a bird whose forehead is blurred and the grey eye emerges from the left edge staring into the lens.

New Artist Focus: Chris Fite-Wassilak on Duncan Marquiss

Listen to this essay on Soundcloud (12 minute listen) LUX Moving Image · Syncretic Psychedelia. Chris Fite-Wassilak on Duncan Marquiss read by Benjamin Cook

New Artist Focus: Aaron Kelly on Seamus Harahan

Seamus Harahan was born in London in 1968 and grew up there and in East Tyrone. He lived in Belfast for most of his adult

Cutouts of a forest in various shapes are collaged with a blue sky.

New Artist Focus: Frances Morgan on Katy Dove

I was writing about colours and shapes but found myself wanting to write about improvisation. Specifically I wanted to think about what it’s like improvising

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